bangkokfrog

Thank God we can all rest easy. First an Ebola cure, now containment of Zika. Well done MOPH !!!

This is no excuse... the BMA are still hopelessly inefficient and ineffective. I accept that there is little sense of community here and that people throw garbage anywhere they can get away with it. But surely the BMA should recognize this and not leave it until it rains to clear the drains.

A waste of time. This will go nowhere since the army was one of the main purchasers... and we know that they can do no wrong!

So if somebody can't pay back a loan shark who is threatening to break their legs or shoot them what incentive is there to pay back a soft loan from a bank?

My guess is the default rate on this scheme will be huge.

And of course many of the people that borrow will either do something else with the money or go back to the same loan sharks later for more money. Bailing out the borrowers is not the answer. Enforcing the law and cleaning up the mafia-like lenders is the only solution. But of course they are likely to be so well connected and/or "protected" that they are untouchable.

I would think that the way many Thai people (especially the government and "HI-so") treat and look down on our neighbours from Cambodia, this would be the last country they would want to buy food from.

Russian and high-tech... in common with Thailand, unless copied this is an oxymoron if ever I have heard one.

I can't believe that Yingluck wrote / came up with this herself. Her comments about human rights and the right of free expression are the first "States person-like" words I have heard come from her mouth, and one must wonder if things are starting to happen behind the scenes.

Compared to the cost of putting any such advertisements on air and the advertising value of the whiter than white, so-called "perfectly" shaped (for Thai) bodies of these celebs, the suggested fines (20,000 baht and another 10,000 baht fine per day) are a joke.

Witnesses described the gunman as skinny and about 170 centimeters tall.

Then we can safely say that he isn't a regular customer!

Swedish Ambassador His Excellency Staffan Herrstrom admitted to ACM Prajin that he did not fully understand how Thailand approaches human rights.

I can relate to that, because most developed countries have this strange thing called equal rights... something that it will take a generation or two to see in this country.

Tagalong is correct. My understanding (admittedly third hand) is that the villagers are the victim of a scare campaign initiated by a well connected local figure who had bought up large tracts of land surrounding the mine in anticipation of it expanding. They became angry and started causing trouble when the mine refused to buy the land at "Klong Dan" level mark-ups. I suspect that when the dust settles, we will see the mine re-opened by a Thai company owned by people connected with whatever government is in power at the time.

many of the... 2,700 fishing vessels in 22 coastal provinces... have not set sail since last July because they do not have the proper licenses.

Yeah right! How many is "many" in Thailand? No more than a few hundred, I suspect. Ban the lot of them.

Another was assigned to transmit all data to tutors who also are university students.

While I applaud the action, as usual only half the solution. Why no talk of expelling the tutors and also banning them from the medical profession for life?

Later Acting Sub Lt Akesitthi Hongharn showed up to declare ownership of the restaurant...

Looks like another inactive holiday coming up! I think we can all safely assume that Acting Sub Lt Akesitthi Hongharn was "acting" for someone else whose name we will never know.

Best wishes to the injured but a pox on their officers. This morning we were greeted with the headline: "Security forces are on red alert ahead of the Krue Se 12th anniversary on Thursday".

Interesting that they already know that the bomb was 10-kilo. Anyone know if this is so powerful that it could take out a whole patrol walking in "red alert" formation? I am not sure what it means here, but in most armies a red alert would not see members of a patrol being so close together that 5 could be taken out at once by a conventional roadside bomb.

http://news.thaivisa.com/hua-hin/police-hunt-thugs-who-brutally-attacked-british-family-in-hua-hin/139977/

thug that would hit a woman..

The poor woman was punched to her knees and then kicked in the face to floor her. What type of creatures are these? Why did locals not at least protect the woman?.

why i will put this news here 1000 times is-- Why did locals not at least protect the woman?. they are total cold blood psychopats . really ,thai peple need doctor..or some hard....

am think some nationality is bad.. but this video show whole world true face of thailand .

Stardust314, I am not sure what this has to do with the topic or how long you have been in Thailand, but you have answered the question yourself:

"they are total cold blood psychopaths"... not those watching, but the attackers. Sadly, so many thugs carry and are prepared to use concealed guns or knives here that to get involved in something like this can mean a fate worse than those being attacked. There have been many cases where "good Samaritans" have ended up in hospital or even the morgue.

If the police were to start to do their job and actually get out and about in crowd situations, things might change. The police are not there to serve, but to feather their own nests. In reality, I think they are more scared of the thugs than the rest of the population.

As a dreaded "farang", I don't pretend to have any expertise on what is needed to solve this blight on Thailand. It certainly needs local solutions, but I can't see that unions are part of the answer. To be effective, trade unions need two things. The first is the ability to undertake industrial action when all else fails. Would the powerful families controlling these industries and/or the government allow this? I think not. The second is an inclusive membership where all workers are considered equal. Would the average Thai workers in these industries consider themselves the equal of their Burmese, Khmer or Laos counterparts and vote to undergo hardship or go on strike to support them? I know not.

so nature does its thing,

driving is something complete different,

your point?

I think there may be some validity in the headline. I don't think it was just nature, but shoddy planning and work that helped bring this down. Lucky (this time) that no one was killed.

I have just spent last couple of days looking used car prices Thailand, Thailand used cars are $1,000s dearer than Australian used cars, why?Is this Thailand thinking second hand car to dear, better to buy new one? soon Thailand be like all other countries that made new cars, thousands of acres of new cars just sitting there.( over production) anyone want to bet I am wrong?

Like you, I am amazed at how high used car prices are in Thailand compared to other countries. But I don't think that it is used car prices being so high that encourages people to buy new ones... it is all about the extra "face" one gets from driving a shiny new car with pretty red plates. I think the answer is that if used car prices reflected their true value, it would show up how ridiculously expensive new car prices are compared to the real value of the vehicles.

It's probably just like the real estate market here... tightly controlled and manipulated by banks and others with a vested interest to try to delay the inevitable.. a bubble burst in a repeat of 1997.

For me the big unanswered question is: What were the results of his drug and alcohol tests? Surely they were collected as part of standard procedure? (I ask with a cheek full of tongue!!)

...the commercial sector will likely grow by 3.2% this year, ...(but) auto credit sales this year would likely drop 10%???

This guy is clearly hedging his bets to avoid a one week attitude adjustment holiday.

Might give it a go, has cost me a fortune following my vehicle number plates. The numbers have never come up, must be because I am a farang and the spirits can't understand my Thai.

Hasn't anyone told you that you need to rub them with a piece of chalk to find the hidden lucky numbers?

The funeral cannot take place until the questions of compensation are settled, she said.

As a father, I feel for the family. But this is one of the big problems in this country. When a tragic accident happens, the focus is too often on compensation rather than seeking justice and making sure that it doesn't happen again.

“I didn’t plagiarize the book. I merely lifted the content for my use,” said Wattana,... “I cited him [Nithi] in the bibliography. I said clearly that I used Nithi’s work. I didn’t have enough wisdom to come up with that work on my own.”

Sadly, this a problem throughout the whole education system here. Copying is not seen as cheating, and letting people copy is not seen as helping them to cheat. The last sentence says it all. If this guy doesn't have enough wisdom, he shouldn't get the PhD!

And that's the problem in a nutshell: nepotistic postings are normal and legal.

And we have a PM who thinks that changing one's surname removes all familial connections...

Spot on. Corruption and nepotism are "normal" in many parts of the world, but that doesn't make them right. Here we have a PM who tries to adopt a "holier than thou" attitude in everything he says, but doesn't follow it up in what he does. And as for thinking that changing his name will change anything, one has to wonder if his speech writer is an ex-politician with a liking for drinking ear medicine.,